Tuesday, 29 October 2013

It's my turn, (Anne) to post a little inspiration for you.
Throughout the week all us Dressy Girls are trying our best to give you a little inspiration or a tutorial or two. I do hope your enjoying our efforts:) We're all having an absolute blast with all of Wendy's fabulous images.

This is Autumn Girl. Isn't she a cutie? An absoulte dream to colour up too:) You'll find loads more like her over in Wendy's All Dressed Up store on Etsy.

Sunday, 27 October 2013

Hello, my name is Lizzy and I am very proud to present my first inspiration post for All Dressed Up. She is one of the little Autumn girls by the ever talented Wendy Burns, which you can find here!

I have used the Kaisercraft paper pad called Forget me not as my colour inspiration.

I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut the two cards required to make this design, the design number from the Silhouette store is 12035, flower branch card.

It got a little complicated when I wanted to apply my coloured digi to the card, it was too big! I had coloured her on holiday, and hadn't figured out what design I was going to use, when I cut the flower card I was limited to how big the card would cut, and as it happens the finished card is about 8x8. So I scanned the coloured digi, resized it and flipped it so it faced a different way.... it suited this design. I used my Silhouette software to do this, but any software that allows these changes are fine, I just was being lazy and got the Silhouette to cut it out too!!

Anyway here is my finished design, I hope you like it and give it a go!

More pictures can be found on my blog lizzydoodles. Have a lovely day xxxx

Wednesday, 23 October 2013

Well the big day is almost here... In anticipation I have used some of the new "All Dressed Up" images; Magical Day and All Dressed up Mummy. You can get these digi's in the ADU Etsy shop. If you would like to visit these little spookies, come by my blog - Sprinkle and Sparkle.

Monday, 21 October 2013

Hi everyone and Happy Monday :) I'm so excited to be posting today as this is my first post as a Dressy Girl DT member! :) Here's my card:

For my card today, I just had to color up this adorable image from All Dressed Up Digi Stamps. This particular image is one of the Three Little Autumn Girls and she was so much fun to color. I of course colored her up with my copics. My DP is from Cosmo Cricket. The die cut was made from a Memory Box die. The sentiment is from Pink By Design. What do you think? Well, I hope you enjoyed my card today. Thanks so much as always for stopping by. Have a wonderful day :)

Sunday, 20 October 2013

Hi, it's Lynn here with some I Heart Dogs love......and yes, I do "heart" dogs! You'll find this precious image in Wendy's All Dressed Up shop along with so many more adorable images.
I used some Hampton Art DP and colored up this little dude with Copics. It's a fun image and makes into a cute card.
You can find more details on my blog.

Wednesday, 16 October 2013

Today I am answering a Facebook query posted by Lyndsey Turner who asked about grounding images and colouring grass.

I have used one of the Three Little Autumn Girls that can be found HERE for tutorial. I hope you find it useful. This is my first tutorial of this type so any pointers or if I have missed anything please feel free to comment and ask further questions. I will try to help as best I can.

This tutorial is based on what I do when colouring, there are various different things you can do but these are my methods!

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(all colouring is done with Copics)

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Grounding

First finish colouring your selected image.

I then used C4 to colour a direct shadow underneath her feet, then C2 and C0 blended out so the shadow appears lighter.

This looks pretty simple but it certainly makes her look like she is standing on something rather than floating on the page.

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Colouring Grass

Again start by colouring your image.

For the sand/ground I have used a mixture of 'E' colours and some W4.

The first colour I applied was E55. Start by scribbling some small areas.

The next colour was W4, and I did the same again to begin filling in the gaps.

Then I used E23, E29 and E35. These can be used in any order and any combination.

Now we start on the grass. I used YG97 and holding the pen vertical and lightly against the paper use a small flicking motion upwards. This will give the illusion of a thicker stalk nearer the ground and then tapering off to complete the blade.

I then did the same using the YG67.

And then finished the grass off with the G24.

The grass looks much more realistic and effective done like this, in smaller blades or clumps rather than colouring a large area. You will notice that the blades go over the boots and the soil. This helps to ground her. I finished off the image by using the W4 directly under her feet just to add a little more depth.

I hope you have found this helpful. These are really the first stages we can go into more detail by adding flowers etc another time.

If you could please contact us with the name of 3 images of your choice from the shop and we will get them sent over to, our contact email is alldressedupchallenge@gmail.com. Well done :) And also don't forget to grab your winner badge from the sidebar.